[Granville-Hough] 9 Dec 2009 - Roland Hough's Obituary

[Trustees for Granville W. Hough]

Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:06:05 -0800
From: Granville W Hough <gwhough at oakapple.net>
Subject: Roland Hough's Obit-9 Dec 2009

  My youngeest brother Roland Hough has no descendants, though he does
have two former wives, one
of whom he actually married three different times.  It is enough to say
that none of us ever understood Roland, who probably never recovered
from our father's death when he was a little boy.    You can learn about
him and Roland Herbert Hough, Jr, on Google.com.

COL ROLAND H. HOUGH, FORMER RESIDENT DIES

    Col. Roland H. Hough, Sr, former resident of Poplarville, and former
Elections Commissioner for Pearl River County, died 7 Dec 2001, at
Northeast Methodist Hospital, San Antonio, TX.  He is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Pal Ye Hough, of San Antonio, his former wife, Mrs. Bobbye
Jean Hough of Winter Park, FL, (now living in AL) and two brothers, 
Granville W. Hough, of
Laguna Woods, CA and Donald M. Hough of Gainesville, FL, sister-in-law
Sara Hough of Columbia, sister-in-law Bettie Hough of Magee, and sixteen
nephews and nieces.
    Col Hough, born 9 Dec 1928 near Mize, MS, was the youngest of seven
Hough brothers of Smith County who served in WWII.  He graduated from
Magee High School and joined the Marines, serving in the U. S. and
Korea.  He returned to MS and married Bobbye Jean Barrett of Magee, and
they had one son, Roland Herbert Hough, Jr, who was a Vietnam veteran
who died in 1983.  Col Hough graduated from Mississippi State
University, and then served in Army Artillery in Alaska and in other
states.  After leaving active military service, he continued in the Army
Reserves, retiring as full Colonel.
He was a chemist with El Paso Smelter Company and other mining companies
in the Southwest, then joined Stennis Space Center as Senior Process
Engineer in the Army Ammunition Plant, and settled in Poplarville.
Having divorced, he in 1969 married Mrs. Mary (Dowdle) Greenwich, Home
Demonstration Agent for Pearl River County, and purchased the Tom
Richardson farm near Poplarville.  When he retired from work at Stennis
Space Center, he became a full-time farmer and served two terms as
Elections Commissioner for Pearl River County.  After Mary Hough died in
1994, he remarried his first wife and continued to live in Poplarville
until 1997, when he and Bobbye Jean moved to Tucson, AZ, where he was a
volunteer for the Legal Aid Office at Davis-Monthan AFB.  He and Bobbye 
divorced for the third time
in 2000, and Roland moved to San Antonio in 2001 where he married Mrs.
Pal Ye Henry, the surviving widow.
    Col Hough died while undergoing emergency surgery to remove an
abcess.  He had several years earlier had heart quadruple bypass surgery
at Hattiesburg, MS, then later at Hattiesburg, removal of the prostate
to stop cancer.  His heart stopped under anesthesia, and he could not be
revived.  His remains were cremated and placed in Fort Sam Houston
National Military Cemetery.
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	In his final years, Roland did some strange things which none of us 
could justify.  We concluded the prolonged operations in Hattiesburg 
under anesthesia had damaged his brain to the extent that dementia had 
set in.  I did not see nor talk to him after those operations, but he 
did write some unusual letters in which he cut off all communications 
with me, and I believe he did the same with others in our family.  We 
did not know where he and Bobbye went after leaving Mississippi, and we 
did not learn until after his death in 2001.  Roland's final wife never 
heard of any brothers.  She was aware there was a divorced wife.
	I can only pray that God has forgiven Roland and the rest of us for 
whatever sins of omission and commission we committed, and that he rest 
in peace!